Benoit Maubrey Creates Massive Sculptures Out of 1000s of Recycled Speakers

<a href="http://www.benoitmaubrey.com/" target="_blank">Benoit Maubrey</a> is a German installation artist who has a predilection for recreating public monuments like the Berlin Wall as audio-electronic sculptures. Maubrey recycles old speakers and electronics and incorporates them into massive sculptures. Then passersby have the chance to "call up" the artpieces and speak through them. His latest installation is a speaker wall composed of 1000 recycled loudspeakers, amplifiers and tuners, which also doubled as a PA system during events at the <a href="http://www.lequai-angers.eu/en/season/exhibitions/bdd/sid/488" target="_blank">Festival Accroche-Coeurs in Angers</a>, France in the spring of 2011.

The Speaker Wall, which was part of the <a href="http://www.lequai-angers.eu/en/season/exhibitions/bdd/sid/488" target="_blank">Le Quai-Forum des Arts Vivants/</a>Angers. Accroche-Coeurs Festival in 2011, is a long wall the resembles the Berlin Wall.

In fact, Maubrey incorporated an actual piece of the real wall in the center, which is then surrounded by 1000 speakers, amplifiers and tuners.

People could then call up the sculpture ( tel Nr: 0033 2 41 42 23 18) an speak into an answering machine that records their voice. The recording is then played over the speakers, which functioned as a "Speakers Corner“ through which people can talk.

JOBFIELD 3000 Village Resort Exhibition/Kunstpflug e.V./ Brandenburg. 2008. A small field is plowed in the same manner as an asparagus fields near the town of Beelitz (Brandenburg) Instead of asparagus 60 telephone receivers are planted in rows. The telephone receivers play voices of different job openings in the area. These are downloaded from the internet and played "live" through the telephone speakers. Each row has different job announcements.

SPEAKERS GATE. Kirschau (Saxen) Germany. 2010. Replica of the gateway of a 6th century fortress (the KORSE). Materiels:350 recycled loudspeakers, amplifiers, radio receivers. Electronic elements are soldered together and amplify "white noise"(electromagnetic waves of the environment).

SPEAKER‘S MONUMENT. 1991. INTERFERENZEN-- Art from West Berlin, Riga, Lithuania. A discarded Stalinist sculpture equipped with loudspeakers, telephone answering machine, and amplifier. People can call up the sculpture and talk through it.

SPEAKER‘S WALL. 1987. Winning project model for the "Overcoming the Wall" contest. Permanent collection of Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin. Loudspeakers and microphones installed in a model of the Berlin Wall.

SPEAKER‘S CONTAINER. 1987 Exhibition: ART IN CONTAINER, Freiburg Kunstverein. A container is equipped with loudspeakers, amplifier, and telephone answering machine. For the duration of the exhibition anyone can call the container and speak inside it.

AUDIO BATHTUB. 1985. Schauplatz im Kutscherhaus B. Maubrey and HP Kuhn. Loudspeakers, bathtub, blue lights and foghorn </br> SPEAKER‘S MAILBOXES. "Material &amp; Wirkung"e.V, 1985 Exhibition in a Berlin apartment house. The tenants are asked to make cassette recordings for their respective mailboxes.

Audio Suitcases. 2004 "Sonoric Atmospheres/Ostseebiennale der Klangkunst. Suitcases with breathing sound. Non-mobile multiacoustic sound sculpture.

AUDIO IGLOO. 1997. Hull Time Based Arts, U.K. 2004 Parochial Church, Singuihr Gallery/Berlin. Materiels: 300 recycled loudspeakers, tuners, record players,and receivers. Sound: electromagnetic air waves (white noise).